Nanotechnology is an emerging inter-disciplinary paradigm which encompasses diverse fields of science and engineering converge at the nanoscale. This nanoscale science and nanostructure engineering have well demonstrated in the fabrication of sensors/transducers devices with faster response time and better sensitivity then the planer version of the sensor’s configurations. Nanotechnology is not just to grow/fabricate nanostructures by just mixing nanoscale materials together but it requires the ability to understand and to precisely manipulate and control of the developed nanomaterials in a useful way. Nanotechnology is aiding to substantially improve, even revolutionize, many technology and industry sectors like information technology, energy, environmental science, medicine/medical instrumentation, homeland security, food safety, and transportation, among many others. Such applications of nanotechnology are delivering in both expected and unexpected ways on nanotechnology’s promise to benefit the society. The semiconductor ZnO with wide band gap (~ 3.37 eV) is a distinguish and unique material and its nanostructures have attracted great attention among the researchers due to its peculiar properties such as large exciton binding energy (60 meV) at room temperature, the high electron mobility, high thermal conductivity, good transparency and easiness of fabricating it in the different type of nanostructures. Based on all these fascinating properties, ZnO have been chosen as a suitable material for the fabrication of photonic, transducers/sensors, piezoelectric, transparent and spin electronics devices etc. The objective of the current study is to highlight the recent developments in materials and techniques for electrochemical sensing and hetrostructure light emitting diodes (LEDs) luminescence properties based on the different ZnO nanostructures. The sensor devices fabricated and characterized in the work were applied to determine and monitor the real changes of the chemical or biochemical species. We have successfully demonstrated the application of our fabricated devices as primary transducers/sensors for the determination of extracellular glucose and the glucose inside the human fat cells and frog cells using the potentiometric technique. Moreover, the fabricated ZnO based nanosensors have also been applied for the selective determination of uric acid, urea and metal ions successfully. This thesis relates specifically to zinc oxide nanostructure based electrochemical sensors and photonic device (LED) applications.

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<p dir="ltr">Modern machine learning research has recently made impressive progress across various research disciplines, such as computer vision, natural language processing, also in scientific fields including materials and molecule discovery, chip, and circuit design. In photonics/optics area, conventional methods in designing and optimiza- tion typically demand substantial time and extensive computing resources, where machine learning approaches hold the potential to significantly elevate and expe- dite these processes. On the other hand, machine learning algorithms can benefit from optical/photonics based neuromorphic computing systems due to their unique strengths in power consumption and parallelization. This talk will focus on imple- menting machine learning algorithms to optimize the optical/ photonics device (ML for photonics) as well as building optical based computing system for ML applica- tions (photonics for ML): First, I will discuss my work using probabilistic generative model (CVAE) for designing nanopatterned photonics power splitter with arbitrage splitting ratio. The model is incorporated with adversarial censoring and active learn- ing to increase the quality of generated devices. Next, I will report a physics-guided and physics-explainable recurrent neural network for time dynamics discovery in op- tical resonances, which can precisely forecast the time-domain response of resonance features with a very short portion of the initial input. The model is trained in a two-step multi-fidelity framework for high-accuracy forecast. In the end, I will present our progress in developing free space reconfigurable optical computing sys- tems for scientific computing, which is an optical based general matrix multiplication (GEMM) hardware accelerator by engineering a spatially reconfigurable array made from chalcogenide phase change materials. A device-system co-design methodology was implemented for GEMM system optimization. The device has been demonstrated over a various of ML applications.</p>

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<p>Since the inception of integrated electronic circuits there has been a trend of miniaturizing as many electronic, optical and even mechanical circuits and systems as possible. For optical applications this naturally led to the invention of semiconductor optical sources such as the laser diode (LD) and the light emitting diode (LED). A third device, the superluminescent diode was later invented to offer an output with a power similar to that of an LD and spectral width similar to that of an LED. However, there is usually a trade off between the output power and spectral width of the generated beam. The main challenge in the development of SLD is, therefore, finding ways to mitigate the power-spectral linewidth trade off.</p> <p>Previous work has two major directions. In the first one the goal is to eliminate facet reflections thus preventing lasing from happening. The detrimental effect of lasing is that even before it starts the spectral width quickly narrows down. In the second research direction the goal is to make the material gain spectrum wider by playing with different parameters of quantum well active regions.</p> <p>This research work explores yet another way of broadening output spectrum of SLD while allowing the power to increase at the same time. The surface-plasmon waveguide (SPWG) has been proposed to replace the dielectric waveguide, for the first time. A novel SPWG structure is introduced and designed to optimize the device performance in terms of the output power, spectral width and their product known as the power-linewidth product. The effect of different parameters of the new structure on the output light is investigated and attention is given to the high power, high spectral width and high power-linewidth product regimes.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

<p>  </p> <p>Integrated photonics has provided an elegant way to bring the table-top bulky optical systems from the research lab to our daily life, thanks to its compact size, robustness, and low power consumption. Over the past decade, Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) photonics has become a leading material platform, benefiting from its record-low loss, large Kerr nonlinearity, and compatibility with the foundry process. However, the lack of electro-optical effect makes it challenging to actively tune the Si3N4 photonic circuits for advanced applications, such as LiDAR, spectroscopy, and atomic clocks. During my PhD research, I have developed a new platform of piezoelectric control of Si3N4 photonics through stress-optical effect. By integrating an<br> Aluminum Nitride (AlN) piezoelectric actuator, I demonstrated the tuning of Si3N4 optical microring resonator at sub-microsecond speed with nano-Watt power consumption. Microwave frequency (GHz) acousto-optic modulation (AOM) is realized by exciting high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonant modes (HBAR), which are tightly confined in an acoustic Fabry-Pérot cavity. Maximum of 9.2 GHz modulation is achieved which falls into the microwave X-band. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The applications of the Piezo-on-Photonic platform are extensively explored in the quasi-DC and high frequency regimes. By working as a stress-optical tuner at low frequency, it allows me to actively tune a Kerr frequency comb into different states, and stabilize it over several hours, which can serve as the light source for the next-generation chip-based LiDAR engine. On the other hand, the GHz frequency AOM has helped me demonstrate a magnetic-free integrated optical isolator, a device that transmits light in only one direction. Three AlN HBAR actuators are integrated closely on the same Si3N4 microring resonator, which generate an effective rotating acoustic wave and break the transmission reciprocity of the light. A maximum of 10 dB isolation is achieved under 300 mW total radiofrequency power, with minimum insertion loss of 0.1 dB. Finally, the application of the same technique in quantum microwave to optical converter is theoretically analyzed, showing potential for building future quantum networks. The initial experimental attempt and outlook for future improvements are investigated. </p> <p><br></p> <p>In conclusion, this thesis investigated a novel Piezo-on-Photonic platform for flexible and efficient control of the Si3N4 photonic system, and its applications in a wide variety of advanced devices are demonstrated, with the potential of being key building blocks for future optical systems on-chip.  </p>

La simulation numérique est couramment utilisée pour étudier le comportement d’un composant et optimiser sa conception. Pour autant, chaque calcul est souvent coûteux en termes de temps et l’optimisation nécessite de résoudre un grand nombre de fois le modèle numérique pour différentes configurations du composant. Une solution actuelle pour réduire le temps de calcul consiste à remplacer la simulation coûteuse par un métamodèle. Des stratégies sont ensuite mises en place pour réaliser l’optimisation du composant à partir du métamodèle. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, trois dispositifs représentatifs des applications pouvant être traitées au sein du CEA LETI sont identifiés. L’étude de ces cas permet d’établir deux problématiques à résoudre. La première concerne la métamodélisation multi-fidélité, qui consiste à construire un métamodèle à partir de deux simulations du même composant ayant une précision différente. Les simulations sont obtenues à partir de différentes approximations du phénomène physique et aboutissent à un modèle appelé haute-fidélité (précis et coûteux) et un modèle basse fidélité (grossier et rapide à évaluer). Le travail sur cette méthode pour le cas de la cellule photoacoustique a amené au développement d’un nouveau métamodèle multifidélité basé sur les fonctions à base radiale. La deuxième problématique concerne la prise en compte des incertitudes de fabrication dans la conception de dispositifs photoniques. L’optimisation des performances de composants en tenant compte des écarts observés entre la géométrie désirée et la géométrie obtenue en fabrication a nécessité le développement d’une méthode spécifique pour le cas du coupleur adiabatique. / Numerical simulation is widely employed in engineering to study the behavior of a device and optimize its design. Nevertheless, each computation is often time consuming and, during an optimization sequence, the simulation code is evaluated a large number of times. An interesting way to reduce the computational burden is to build a metamodel (or surrogate model) of the simulation code. Adaptive strategies are then set up for the optimization of the component using the metamodel prediction. In the context of this thesis, three representative devices are identified for applications that can be encountered within the CEA LETI optics and photonics department. The study of these cases resulted in two problems to be treated. The first one concerns multifidelity metamodeling, which consists of constructing a metamodel from two simulations of the same component that can be hierarchically ranked in accuracy. The simulations are obtained from different approximations of the physical phenomenon. The work on this method for the case of the photoacoustic cell has generated the development of a new multifidelity surrogate model based on radial basis function. The second problem relate to the consideration of manufacturing uncertainties in the design of photonic devices. Taking into account the differences observed between the desired geometry and the geometry obtained in manufacturing for the optimization of the component efficiency requires the development of a particular method for the case of the adiabatic coupler. The entire work of this thesis is capitalized in a software toolbox.

Chalcogenide glasses are highly nonlinear optical materials which can be used for fabricating active and passive photonic devices. This thesis work deals with the fabrication of buried, three dimensional, channel waveguides in chalcogenide glasses, using ultrafast laser inscription technique. The femtosecond laser pulses are focused into rare earth ions doped and undoped chalcogenide glasses, few hundred microns below from the surface to modify the physical properties such as refractive index, density, etc. These changes are made use in the fabrication of active and passive photonic waveguides which have applications in integrated optics. The first chapter provides an introduction to the fundamental aspects of femtosecond laser inscription, laser interaction with matter and chalcogenide glasses for photonic applications. The advantages and applications of chalcogenide glasses are also described. Motivation and overview of the present thesis work have been discussed at the end. The methods of chalcogenide glass preparation, waveguide fabrication and characterization of the glasses investigated are described in the second chapter. Also, the details of the experiments undertaken, namely, loss (passive insertion loss) and gain measurements (active) and nanoindentation studies are outlined. Chapter three presents a study on the effect of net fluence on waveguide formation. A heat diffusion model has been used to solve the waveguide cross-section. The waveguide formation in GeGaS chalcogenide glasses using the ultrafast laser, has been analyzed in the light of a finite element thermal diffusion model. The relation between the net fluence and waveguide cross section diameter has been verified using the experimentally measured properties and theoretically predicted values. Chapter four presents a study on waveguide fabrication on Er doped Chalcogenide glass. The active and passive characterization is done and the optimal waveguide fabrication parameters are given, along with gain properties for Er doped GeGaS glass. A C-band waveguide amplifier has been demonstrated on Chalcogenide glasses using ultrafast laser inscription technique. A study on the mechanical properties of the waveguide, undertaken using the nanoindentation technique, is presented in the fifth chapter. This work brings out the close relation between the change in mechanical properties such as elastic modulus and hardness of the material under the irradiation of ultrafast laser after the waveguide formation. Also, a threshold value of the modulus and hardness for characterizing the modes of the waveguide is suggested. Finally, the chapter six provides a summary of work undertaken and also discusses the future work to be carried out.